Now the state will need to pay for unemployment payments to the workers for a few weeks or even more as well as not collecting taxes on wages during that time. Then the sales tax revenue from the store finally opening will be delayed by a similar or longer period of time. Way to go!

Google will now have to weigh if for the next big project if they should just build it overseas (Mexico or many other places) and just float it finished to the area. After all not only are the workers less money but the chance of randomly being stopped are less as well.

So you think it would be better to fill the bay with unpermitted retail stores?

It is possible that this thing may "accidently" sink on the way to another port....

Google could always sell this thing to a Mexican cartel where it could be loaded up with Mexican prostitutes, hooch and drugs and be towed up and down the west coast of American in international waters. Shuttle crafts could supply the customers from every port from America's southern boarder to Alaska. Google Glass could be rented to every customer on board so they can relive their antics on the barge when they get home and sober up.

Something like this is just BEGGING for a marketing name!

"That (the) world is moving so quickly that iOS is already amongst the older mobile operating systems in active development today." — The Verge

Google, which would claim to employ some of the most intelligent people on the planet, gets caught doing something any journeyman plumber would know they shouldn't do. They were attempting to build without a permit, and in San Francisco no less. SF must have some of the most draconian permitting and building regulations in the country.

And did someone point out to the just how useless a barge would be for staging Google Glass demonstrations? Barges don't travel well on the open ocean. It could only be used for for the dozen or so cities on the West Coast.

It is possible that this thing may "accidently" sink on the way to another port....

Google could always sell this thing to a Mexican cartel where it could be loaded up with Mexican prostitutes, hooch and drugs and be towed up and down the west coast of American in international waters. Shuttle crafts could supply the customers from every port from America's southern boarder to Alaska. Google Glass could be rented to every customer on board so they can relive their antics on the barge when they get home and sober up.

Something like this is just BEGGING for a marketing name!

Google, forever barging in, uninvited.

"If the young are not initiated into the village, they will burn it down just to feel its warmth."- African proverb